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In the text of the report the author devotes to the reflection of the work Mimnemesis of the young sound-art representative Pierre-Laurent Cassiére (* 1982, France). The Mimnemesis project is presented by the author at the first year of the International sound and experimental art festival Sound City Days in Košice held in September 2012 in the premises of the Archaeological Museum Lower Gate in Košice.
The role of aesthetics as a science is to examine any expression of aesthetic thinking, evaluate perception and interpretation of created artefacts and analyse options of aesthetic research of the rest of the society and objects commonly on the edge of the interest. Given paper turns the interest on the period of Slovak prehistory (Iron Age) when the development of Europe was dictated by the countries...
The author considers aesthetic thinking of George Santayana to be closely interconnected and knotted with his philosophical attitudes and at the same time with his art production (novel, poetry). The author suggests that his production (philosophical, aesthetic, literary, social, and political works), in spite of diversity of his ideas, can be characterized by continuity. She proves by evidence that...
The author deals with aesthetic quality „children’s aspect of expression”. She focuses on its characteristic from the point of view of musical creator. She enumerates specification of music for children and at the same time she suggests, what picture of child in art brings and represents. She thinks about artistic value of children creation. She confronts experiences from reflection of musical work...
The study deals with a phenomenon of primitivism in fine art of the first three decades of 20th century in Europe and Slovakia. The Slovak after-war fine art stylistically stemmed from two remarkable centres – from Budapest academic environment and from Prague cultural environment. On the basis of examining contemporary documents, the paper therefore proves Hungarian and Czech intellectual environment...
The theatre company Hviezdoslav in the city of Spišská Nová Ves is one of the oldest amateur theatre companies in Slovakia. At the field of the community theatre, it works more than eighty years. The company was established in 1932. With its performance activities it contributed to the development of the theatre culture of the Spiš region. In the presented paper, we focus our attention on performance...
In the presented paper attention is drawn to the so-far under-appreciated art history and aesthetic orientation of a multidimensional personality. Jan Albrecht (1919-1996) embodies a ”personal unity“ in whom a performing musician, musicologist, aesthetician, renowned university teacher and musical impresario all came together. He was one of those personalities that formed future generations of artists,...
This paper pursues transformation of Kant's definition of the category sublime in post-Kantian aesthetic reflexion. Finding this line of thinking (Herder, Schelling) allows not only present relevant approaches to the whole history of the aesthetic category, but also to show the platform for new thinking not only in aesthetic discourse, but wherever the sublime enter today at the core of interest (art,...
The gravity of freedom, as one of the main features and privileges of Kant’s genius, can be verified by the fact, according to which his artistic creation reveals itself within the so-called Beautiful, Free Art. Despite all that, the work originates from reflections, which present themselves as reasons to reassess the main themes and characteristics in Kant’s aesthetic theory. In the paper, I deal...
The report introduces the work of Cindy Sherman, a visual and conceptual artist, who has mainly worked in the field of gender and identity politics. The author of the text describes Sherman ́s best known series of photographs Untitled Film Still as well as a series of photographs taken for Vogue Paris. Sherman ́s work is compared to the work of Slovak conceptual artist Lucia Nimcova and her series...
The background of the author’s thoughts is a radical critique of art and science by J. J. Rousseau and genuine aesthetic and moral disposition of a human being outlined by I. Kant in his pre-critic works. According to the author, the art of twentieth century reveals (comments, extremely magnifies, contemplates, designates, creates metaphors, asks the questions) problems of a “nature of a contemporary...
The work sets its goal in an attempt to name the possible relationship in Kant’s, Schopenhauer’s and Wittgenstein’s thoughts about art. The notion less character of the ’idea‘ of an art piece, outlined by Kant’s and Schopenhauer’s aesthetic theory, will be studied in the context of Wittgenstein’s points of view on the question of meaning or interpretation of art pieces. On the theme level, the chosen...
The contribution deals with the topic of aesthetization of public space and use of modern architecture in historically valuable environment. These issues have been debated for a long time. The aim of our contribution is connected with questions concerning the topic of aesthetization. We defined the following questions: How can coexistence of history and present state of architectonic works reflect...
There are a lot of musical works reflecting horrible historical and political events in 20th century. The musical works of the 20th century react to the horror of the WWI and the WWII, violence and political terror of that time ideologies. However the works indisputably witness the experiences of personal drama and trauma inclusively. The article points to the musical induction of the negative emotions...
The paper reveals a view point of G. Santayana on avant-garde, which has been created at the same time as his philosophical and aesthetic conceptions came into existence. Although he was poet and many papers devoted to studying of poetry he has been interested in all kinds of art. When creating his own philosophical-aesthetic conception he paid attention to ancient art – especially Greek art. However,...
To elaborate the intention of previous contribution, this paper opens again the problem of reception of Kant's definition of the category sublime. Variations which perform Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and Adorno represent some innovative approaches. Bridging the history of this aesthetic category in the 20th century in theirs thinking, represents functionality of the sublime, which we observe through the...
The aim of the author ́s paper is the issue of the history of Jesuit school theatre, that was developing during the years 1673 to 1773 in the highly protestant environment in the one of the most important reformation centres in Upper Hungary, namely in the independent royal city Prešov. The paper is focus on the history of Jesuit school play in Prešov in background history of Lutheran college in Prešov,...
The author of the paper focuses on originality of artistic or pedagogic intention of two contemporary Slovak music composers – Iris Szeghy and Juraj Hatrík. Inspired by emotional impulse of strong artistic and aesthetic experience, she uses elements of essayistic style in the text, associating it freely with theoretical reflection and rational shortcut.
For a person as a human being, is important knowledge, true and at last but not least the ability to create. For the survival of human kind in the past, it was needed to assimilate and to adapt/reshape and so to create the environment. With this need/desire to create is connected a component of culture, which is in present called (fine) art. Because of its uniqueness it was always in the spotlight...
The authoress deals with the Festival of the present music in the proposed essay. She also brings the information about his origin and tries to write down the summary of historical events. In thees say there are mentioned concrete grouping which presented on the Festival works of well-known composers or their own outputs. Besides her own exploration she also uses the professional literature grounded...